Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 February 1910 — English Justice. [ARTICLE]

English Justice.

The reader will find in Dr. Gordon Hake's “Memoirs of Eighty Years,” an anecdote related of Lord Bloomfield, bishop of London about 100 years ago, in which is to be seen a striking trait of the British character. Imprisonment for debt was not in accordance with the bishop’s sense of right. He would not yield his principles even when he was in Italy, where he could not be held responsible for the laws. I was told by one of the family a singular anecdote of the bishop, writes Dr.'Hake. When he was In Rome he was Invited to a banquet by the cardinals, and while the company gathered he learned accidentally that the dining hall was over the debtor’s prison. His anger at once burst forth and knew no bounds. He, a prelate of the Church of England, was Insulted. He had been asked to dine over the heads of those wretched prisoners, who, during the feast, would be pining in their narrow cells! > His hosts naturally exjflained that such an affront was not intended by them; but he was not to be pacified. At last his course was determined on. He would remain where he was until a full list of all the prisoners’ debts was brought to him. . For this he waited sulkily, and when it arrived he wrote a check for the entire amount. The prison doors were opened and he sat down. —■ -